The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-09-17
Maryland Affairs.


Abram Sheets died near Emmitsburg on
Thursday of last week, age 80 years, 10 months
and days.
Rev. DR.. Peyton Harrison. native of
Leesburg, Va, died at his residence IN Balti-
more last Saturday, aged 81 years.
Senator German purposes building six
houses at Laurel, on some land there he has
recently laid off into town lots.
A fire at Snow Hill at an early hour last
Saturday morning destroyed store, stable
and dwelling, causing loss OF about S1OOO.
Louis McMurray has purchased the Carlin
house and the European house, Frederick,
and they will be conducted by Chas. ID. Doll.
Messrs. Poole & Hunt, of Woodberry, have
received orders from Toxic, Japan, for machi-
nerv, and from Minneapolis for two large iron
elevators.
Louis Peters, street car driver in Balti
more, accidently shot and killed himself on
Wednesday, while cleaning shot gun, pre-
paratory to days shooting.
The seventeenth annual fair of the Kent
County Agricultural Society takes place at
Worton next week. The exhibits and races
will exceed all former exhibitions.
John H Ramsburg, we'll known carriage
builder of Frederick, made an assignment last
week. His liabilities, it is said, will amount
to between $4,000 and Sis, 1000; assets said
to be nominal.
A grand tournament, in which large num-
Der Of knights will contest the honors, is an
nounced to take place at Liberty, Frederick
county, on Tuesday next. Col. l.. Victor
Baughman and Capt. James McSherry will
be the orators on the occasion.
At a public meeting of colored people of
Hagerstown to consider their grievances, Gov.
Lloyd was criticised for not having the white
and black militia camp together this summer.
White Republicans were on hand to aid the
colored brother in his grievances. =,
William Grim, of Oakland, is in Jail for
shooting at his wife and for violation of the
local option law. His wife, suspecting he had
female attractions elsewhere, followed him on
Monday, and at the place the supposed at
traction lived, Grim fired at his wife, the ball
passing through her hat.
Rev. Nelson P. Dame, rector of Christ
Church, West River, Anne Arundel county,
has accepted call to- Christ Church, Win
chester, Va This church is one of the most
important charges in the Diocese of Virginia,
and in going to it the Rev. Mr.. Dame leaves
one of the best rural parishes in this State
Jacob A. Talbot, a young colored man,
committed suicide in Baltimore on Tuesday,
by hanging himself He said that she was
who was hanged last Friday, had found the
true way of reaching Heaven, and his only
wish was to die like him and follow him to
the home of the blessed"
Surveyor Edwin Warfeld and DR.. j. Penn
broke Thorn had quarrel in Baltimore on
Thursday, of q political nature, DIR. Thorn
asserting that Warfeld was owned by boss,
and the result was a knock out and black
eye for Dr. Thorn. A little later DeCourcy
Thorn, son of the Doctor, tackled on to the
Surveyor, and he, too, got worsted.
The storm of July 1s last was the severest
of which there is any record in Druid Hill
Park. The damage to the trees was as fol-
lows: 60 torn up by the roots, 1859 broken off
at from 10 to Is feet above the ground, and
237 mutilated more or less, making a total
of ATS injured. Most of the falling trees were
of large size, and broke others when they
went down.
At the colored campmeeting at GAINESVILLE,
Montgomery county, Sheriff Miller attempted
to arrest Henry Mcdonald and Feuton jack
son, colored, for selling liquor. They resist
ed arrest, and general row ensued. Miller
was assaulted and knocked down, and he drew
a revolver and fred three times, shooting and
killing Perry Jackson, and wounding another
colored man. The men were finally arrested,
however, and taken to Rockville.
Recently Mrs. Susan Martin, residing in
Pleasant Valley, near Weverton, Washing
ton county, trimmed cron on the little toe of
one of her feet, causing it to bleed, as she had
frequently done before. She gave the matter
no especial concern, for this reason, never
having experienced any Inconvenience as to
the result of the bleeding. In this instance,
however, the toe nearly dried up, when gan
creme set in, resulting in her death.
Mrs. Annie Chambers Ketchum, a lady of
literary and scientific culture and reputation,
of Memphis, Tennessee, is under physi-
clans care at Frederick, with fractured
arm, received in an accident on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad near Martinsburg
last Monday. She was on her way to New
York. She had presentment that an acct
would occur, and wrote her name on the back
of her ticket before giving it to the conductor.
Monday being the anniversary of the battle
Of North Point was appropriately celebrated
in Baltimore. There was parade of Knights
of Labor and Grand Army Posts, and cele.
brations by the Irish National League at
Standard Park and the Key Monument Asso-
citation at Schuetzen Park. The surviving
sold Defenders" James c. Morford, aged
90 years; John Peddicord, aged SO, and Ma
thaniel Watts, aged SO; also MIS-. Elizabeth
Sands, aged 80, whose brother fought at North
Point, were served with dinners. At night
there was display of fireworks.
DR.. Robert Ward, State veterinarian, re.
ports that CHAMBERS exists on the place of
Messrs. Cook and Cooper, near Gaithershprg,
Montgomery county. Two farm horses and
a colt i'll with the disease were killed. 1t is
said the colt was purchased in Washington
city, where they have some cases of glanders
at present, and was running at the nose when
bought. This animal communicated the dis
ease to the others. The other cattle on the
place have been placed under strict quarantine
and no one permitted near the stable, which
has been valued and will be burnt. Dr.
Ward fears the disease will spread.
The Maryland, Baltimore and Rambler
Cycle Clubs will have q team Faee around the
big lake, at Druid Hill Park, September 80,
if the park commissioners have no objection.
It will be ten mile raoo, and each team viii
be represented by five wheelmen. The win
ming team will be presented with handsome
$500 cup, purchased for that purpose by a
number of business men. The race will, of
course, be free to everybody. On Wednesday,
September 81, from fiftyto seventy five Balti-
more wheelmen will go to Easton, where they
will have several races at the fair grounds.
Edward B. Coolidge, about 40 years of age,
formerly resident of Washington, D. c.,
but for the last twenty years a resident of
Calvert county, killed his wife and then him.
self at their residence, about one and a-half
miles from Huntingdon, In Calvert county,
about clock Tuesday evening, September
ID. Mrs. Coolidge had been confined to her
bed for some time, and was still under the
care of her physician. She was in her bed
room with her sister, Miss Alice Turner, sit
ting by a small fire reading newspaper,
when, shortly after supper, her husband en-
tered the room with a double barreled shot
gun in his hand. Both the ladies noticed
wildnegs In his eyes, and his wife asked him
what he was going to do with that gun His
reply was, 81 intend to shoot you" She
Immediately jumped up and attempted to
take the gun from him, and after scuffie she
succeeded in doing so. He then drew %
calibre seven shot revolver. Mrs. Coolidge's
sister ran out of the room and made her es-
cape from the house, which Mr.. Coolidge had
locked up, through the kitchen window into
the yard. The Aging Witness states that she
heard screams from her sister and two pistol
shots One of these shots she heard as she
Jumped from the window and the other as she
ran from the house. Investigations showed
that Mrs. Coolidge was shot twice in the head,
and Mr.. Coolidge was found with his throat
cut. Mrs. Coolidge was Miss Mary NJ. Tur-
ner, and about S5 years of age. She was
daughter of Harrison I. Turner, Of Calvert